There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

The Constitution was framed in order to form a more perfect union, not to establish mass confusion.

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.